If Cuba Doesn't Want Our $6.3 Million...
Tuesday September 30, 2008
Four times now, the US government has offered Cuba over $6.3 million worth of humanitarian aid in response to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, and four times now, Cuba has failed to respond.
According to Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez, the US has offered to send building materials and shelter kits to assist the more than 200,000 Cubans left homeless by the storms. So far, says Sec. Gutierrez, the Cuban response has been silence. "Getting aid to the Cuban people has been a top priority," he said in a press release. "The United States will continue to stand ready to provide relief to the Cuban people."
You know, Sec. Gutierrez, it sort of looks like our "friends" in the Cuban government don't want our $6.3 million. How about you put it toward that little $700 billion mortgage industry bailout, instead?
Also See: How We Plan to Bring Democracy to Cuba
Comments
Unlike Wall Street, Cuba doesn’t need and doesn’t want any kind of handout from the United States government. What Cuba wants and needs is the ability to PURCHASE needed reconstruction supplies from the United States.
Cuba’s market is a small one, with only eleven million people, but they’re looking to make purchases from the United States, something which businesses in the United States could really use at a time like this.
Wouldn’t that be ironic? Cuba? CASTRO’S CUBA? Offering to bail the United States out???
Here’s what Cuba’s VP told the UN General Assembly about that a few days ago:
Cuba has asked for no gifts from the United States government. It has simply asked and asked again that it be allowed to purchase in the United States the materials that are indispensable for the reconstruction of homes and power grid and that US companies be authorized to grant Cuba private commercial credits to buy food. The answer has been negative, and it has been accompanied with an attempt to manipulate information in such a manner that the government of the United States seems to be concerned for the wellbeing of the Cuban people while the government of Cuba is perceived to be turning down their offer.
If the United States were really so concerned for the Cuban people, the only moral and ethical behavior would be to lift the blockade imposed on Cuba for the last five decades, in violation of the most elemental rules of International Law and the Charter of the United Nations .
FULL SPEECH
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Did one ever think that Cuba cannot forget the olive branch that they extended after the Katrina help they offered was slapped away?
Or let’s think about the fact that they may not even have the capacity to communiocate without power sources.
Jeesh!
Cuba has 200,000 homeless – what about our 1.3 million homeless children in this country – what are we doing about this problem?
Sherry asked what we’re doing here in the U.S.
about our 1.3 million homeless.
Well, one thing we’re doing is spending $40 million per year to promote mischief-making inside of Cuba by opponents of the Cuban government. Some of the dough stays in Miami as a slush fund for Cuban exiles to write anti-Cuban propaganda for our readers here.
It’s a gigantic waste of tax-payer dollars.
$6.3 million dollars can go a long way right here at home in the USA !